[javawizard]

My bleeding linguistic descriptivist heart breaks a little every time I see an argument devolve into squabbling about the meaning of the word "engineer". Like, we can totally debate the merits of applying or not applying those four rules to the practice of creating software, but do we really gain much by arguing about what label we use to represent them?

It's like how the word "literally" has come to be used as an intensifier, not strictly in the (ahem) literal sense of the word - and "objectively" is well on it's way down the same path. You can be angry about that, but it's not going to stop the continuing evolution in how the world uses those terms - and "engineering" as a term is exactly the same.